343: Chapter 343

Chapter 343

Penny was so happy seeing Sarah because she thought that Sarah had accepted her as her future mother-in-law. She was still a human, after all. Despite her lavish life after baby-trapping Marlon, she still wanted to get a bit of validation of her existence.0

Marlon tried to get up, but Sarah rushed towards him and gently pushed the old man back to his seat, "No need to stand up to greet me, Marlon. I'm here just for a visit."

Marlon's smile got wider. He wouldn't lie that he was very proud of his future daughter-in-law.

Why?

Because she was simply the type of woman that all father-in-laws wanted. 

Sarah was sweet, caring, well-educated, and also came from a noble background. Unlike Katherine, who was a daughter of a child molester, Sarah had everything that Kate didn't have.

So Marlon often wondered why James fell in love with such a low-quality woman when Sarah was already here, waiting to be betrothed. 

"I'm glad you're here, Sarah," Marlon said while holding her hand. "Everything has been very dull in this mansion. You will be a great mistress of the house once you are married to Henry."

"Yes, you will light up the house!" Penny followed enthusiastically. "Besides, you should be calling us Mom and Dad at this point, right?"

"That's right," Marlon nodded. "You should be calling us your Mom and Dad since we will be a family."

Sarah's sweet smile dissipated.

She looked sad while pulling away her hand from Marlon gently. She stepped back and said, "I'm sorry, but I cannot do that, Marlon. That would be an overstepping on my part."

Marlon frowned, "Overstepping? Of course not! I allow you to call me Dad or Father!"

"Me too! I want to be called your mother! After all, you're going to marry my son, right?"

Sarah lowered her head, playing as a pitiful sweet lady, and she replied, "I can't do that. I can't marry Henry anymore."

Marlon and Penny were shocked.

Sarah didn't seem to mind being engaged with Henry all this time. After James' death and she was grieving, Henry suddenly proposed to Sarah in front of Marlon and Penny, and they were ecstatic seeing that Sarah and Henry would be together, replacing James, who had failed to be a good heir for the Grant family. 

"What happened? Did he annoy you?" Penny asked. "Oh dear, men are like that, especially a young man like Henry. He might say a few wrong things, but that doesn't mean he hates you!"

Penny tried to salvage any kind of discord between Henry and Sarah as much as possible. She didn't want to lose the chance of being the mother-in-law of a woman from a noble background. 

Sarah shook her head, "It's way worse than that. But I—"Sarah looked up, staring at Marlon and Penny, who looked anxious, and continued, "—I don't know how to fix our relationship anymore."

Marlon went silent for a while, listening to Sarah, and then said, "Just tell me what's wrong, Sarah. Let me beat that boy if he dares to hurt you."

Sarah swallowed her saliva and muttered in a low and pitiful voice, "He annulled the engagement between us."

"HE WHAT?!" 

Marlon almost jumped out of his wicker chair. He thought he heard it wrong, "He annulled the engagement with you?!"

Sarah nodded reluctantly. She was so good at playing as a sweet, innocent young lady who could do no wrong, and these two old people ate it up easily. 

"He came to my apartment about a week ago. He told me he fell in love with Kate and decided to annul the engagement…" Sarah said. She covered her face and started sobbing. "I don't know what I did wrong, but Henry suddenly slapped me when I said no to the annulment. He even went as far as strangling me."

"He forced me to accept the annulment, and fearing for my life, I had to say yes," Sarah said. She continued sobbing, adding, "Of course, I don't want our engagement ruined. I love him! I have genuinely planned to marry Henry by summer next year!"

Sarah looked so convincing when she hunched her shoulder and continued crying while covering her face. Little did Marlon and Penny know Sarah was trying to hide her smile as she continued the fake cry.

After all, who wouldn't laugh when facing two old people so easily fooled? Sarah would die laughing if she saw Penny's stupid face getting distressed over the fake news. 

"D—Dear, you know that Henry is just pretending to like Kate, right? After all, your father-in-law wants to have her baby in exchange for the company's ownership," Penny said as she tried to salvage the situation. 

"If he is just pretending, he wouldn't strangle me for it!" Sarah yelled back. She was like a pitiful woman who was desperate after getting her heart broken, and knowing that Penny was as useful as a used peanut shell, she decided to put all her energy towards Marlon instead. 

"Marlon—no—Father-in-law, I'm sorry that I cannot be the woman who will marry your son. I haven't told my family about the engagement annulment yet, but I will leave this country and return to the UK. I must tell them directly so they can marry me off to someone else."

Marlon took a deep breath. He didn't believe Henry would be foolish enough to turn like James after Marlon murdered his first son in cold blood just to set an example.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Sarah. Don't tell your parents yet. They will be even more upset."

"But Henry strangled me. He seems to have been truly enchanted by Kate, just like what happened to James…"

"He's not like James. He is much more obedient!" Penny tried to defend her son. "T—There must be a misunderstanding here. Why don't I call him and tell him to come? Let's solve this problem as a family, okay, Sarah?"

Sarah smirked, covering her face, 'Time to strike while the iron is hot.'

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